Animoto for the Contest

Greg Clement has a contest now for his clients, asking them to put together a video using Animoto. I did not sign up for the extended version of Animoto, so I was limited to 30 seconds. I do believe that a commercial should be limited to 30-45 seconds. We need to capture people's attention quickly otherwise we lose them to the next video or website. Here is the video I put together in minutes. The hardest part for me was finding my old pictures of past rehabs and then figuring out how to post a comment in Greg's blog to submit my video!
Uploading the pictures was easy and it tells you when you have too many pictures for the length of time you have. The text you place within the video clip takes up some image time, but necessary to get your message across. There are many songs to choose from or you can upload your own. It is that easy! Then you can embed it into your blogs, send an email with a link to it, upload it to Youtube or other sites. Great product!

Animoto Listing

I am listing a friend's house for lease or sale next week. Here is a little video I made with Animoto.com. For free, it gives you 30 seconds and 10 photos/text shots. For a small fee annually, you get more time and links within the video, very good branding and linking capabilities.

Jivox.com

It's been over a week since I last updated, however I have been hard at work. Not only have I been educating myself with Fortune Builders Wholesale Training, I've also been working on my SIMS by Greg Clements of Realeflow.
I've been finding some very cool tools for our business as well. And most of the new ones I've found are free. Yes, I said free!
The 2 funnest ones are jingproject.com and jivox.com. Below you can see a jing of jivox!

I've got our first website up with Realeflow at www.sellsellsellyourhouse.com. Doug's BLOG "Will Doug Make It" is up also with SIMS or Realeflow at www.willdougmakeit.com. We still need to format it and start using it, but at least we have it pointed to Realeflow now. We may use wordpress.com later, but we're giving Realeflow a try for the blog. Tonight I have another Q&A session with Greg Clement. Once a week he is providing us time to send him questions and he is there to answer them. Thanks Greg!

Ending the week strong!

Tonight I went through SIMS module 1, Domains, Websites, Squeeze Pages, Blogs, Conversion Boosters and Traffic Boosters. I ended up with a couple pages of notes, so that means I learned something. He really stressed the importance of Blogs because it builds a website. Each entry is a new page. Search engines love big sites and Blogging is a fairly easy way to build the size of your Blog. Keyword rich content is important, and I have yet to throw in "real estate investing" into every page I write. It takes discipline and a standard format to get it right I guess. He suggested outsourcing for article writing and using parts in our Blogs. I won't be doing that for this Blog, but it could be very helpful for building my buyer and seller Blogs.
Next week these will be implemented.

I believe I have 11 sites I can host with him which is included in my monthly fee. I don't own that many domain names that I want to transfer over to Realeflow yet, so I was searching for domain names.

I got side tracked at the end of last week with our business cards because we started working more with PBNext. I realized I had not put our extensions on the cards, opps. We're paying for PBNext, we need to utilize it completely. It's a powerful tool to help us track our marketing and make sure a live person answers the phone when possible. This weekend I will be submitting my order to PSPrint to get these cards done and off my plate.